March 22-23: Candlelight Vigil

Event intended to raise awareness of domestic abuse.

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Community Engagement Office is sponsoring a 12-hour candlelight vigil to raise awareness of domestic abuse that will be held from 11 p.m. on Friday, March 22 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 23 at Elks Nature Center in Mankato’s Rasmussen Woods.

Volunteers will light and place candles throughout the night, participate in a closing ceremony at noon on Saturday, March 23 and then lead a Rasmussen Woods spring clean-up following the event.

Minnesota State Mankato’s Community Engagement Office held its first candlelight vigil in March 2010 following the death of a Mankato mother due to domestic abuse.

For more information, please contact Denise Billington-Just, assistant director in the Community Engagement Office at Minnesota State Mankato, by phone at 507-389-6076 or by email at denise.billington-just@mnsu.edu.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 15,413 students, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system, which comprises 31 state institutions.